{"id":247560,"date":"2024-03-23T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/big-auto-is-begging-governments-to-let-them-go-bankrupt-as-chinese-evs-loom\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T21:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T21:02:02","slug":"big-auto-is-begging-governments-to-let-them-go-bankrupt-as-chinese-evs-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/big-auto-is-begging-governments-to-let-them-go-bankrupt-as-chinese-evs-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>Automakers are fiercely lobbying governments to water down already-compromised emissions rules, but doing so will only lead to their doom as market entrants that are serious about EVs will continue ramping them anyway.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-355456\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. This is not in dispute by any serious person \u2013\u00a0and any alternative scenario, where humans continue to pollute as much as we do today, will result in worse and worse results for humanity the longer we pollute as climate change becomes progressively worse.<\/p>\n<p>It is necessary that we stop burning fossil fuels, and fast. This is not a matter of opinion, it\u2019s a matter of physics, and physics does not care about your arguments to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the auto industry \u2013\u00a0which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/03\/23\/big-auto-is-begging-governments-to-let-them-go-bankrupt-as-chinese-evs-loom\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at electrek.co.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automakers are fiercely lobbying governments to water down already-compromised emissions rules, but doing so will only lead to their doom as market entrants that are serious about EVs will continue ramping them anyway. The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. This is not in dispute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":247561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/03\/23\/big-auto-is-begging-governments-to-let-them-go-bankrupt-as-chinese-evs-loom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Automakers are fiercely lobbying governments to water down already-compromised emissions rules, but doing so will only lead to their doom as market entrants that are serious about EVs will continue ramping them anyway. 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